Research Interests

Family narratives, storytelling, and communicated sense-making; end-of-life, bereavement, and grief-related communication; health disparities and equity; lifespan and intergenerational communication; community-based participatory research.

Selected Publications

Taladay-Carter, C., & Gunning, J. N. (2024). “It comes in waves”: A relational dialectics approach to exploring living grief in invisible, physical illness. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241257189

Taladay-Carter, C. (2024). Making end-of-life health disparities in the U.S. visible through family bereavement narratives. PEC Innovation Special Issue: Palliative, Hospice, and End-of-Life Care. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecinn.2024.100276

Taladay-Carter, C., & Koenig Kellas, J. (2024). “We’ve had to relearn all of our family dynamics”: Communicated narrative sense-making of bereavement following terminal illness in U.S. families. Journal of Family Communication. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2325951.

Taladay-Carter, C. (2023). Supporting students’ “search for meaning” in empirical journal articles. Communication Teacher, 38(1), 8-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2023.2268714

Gunning, J. N., & Taladay-Carter, C. (2023). Grieving “the death of possibility”: Memorable messages of (dis)enfranchised loss in invisible, physical illness. Health Communication, 1-11. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2257942